You can something very similar with svg and cairo. It would beinteresting to see if you could adapt this to work with html as well.
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> 2008/12/27 Ryo Furue <furue@xxxxxxxxxx>:>> I've been watching this thread with interest because I also like to do>> things like that. I've been looking around and seen some potential>> solutions. The general theme I'm pursuing is, how to script>> applications?>>>> One possibility (though I haven't confirmed that it works) is to use>> the plugin "iMacros" on FireFox. For example, the framework includes>> a command to print the current webpage:>>>> http://wiki.imacros.net/Demo-Print>>>> I suppose you can edit your macro locally.>> It also seems that macros can be run via URLs:>>>> http://wiki.imacros.net/iMacros_for_Firefox>>>> So, basically, I guess you can use them from the command line as>>>> #!/bin/sh>> macro=.firefox/iMacros/print-url.iim>> sed -i s[URL-TO-PRINT][http://url.com/to/print/index.html] $macro>> firefox -new-window "http://your.macro.host.net/print-url.iim";>>>> I'm afraid I don't know how easy or hard this is (or even>> whether it's really possible).>>>> Another possibility is XUL, which seems to be a general>> framework of controlling existing applications through scripting.>> For example, mozilla-xremote-client seems to be using this>> framework. But, this is very speculative on my part. I may>> be totally wrong.>>>> On a related note, I want this kind of stuff (controlling apps>> through scripting) to be more readily available on Linux.>> I heard that Microsoft applications can be controlled from>> Visual Basic, like so>>>> Set xlObj = CreateObject("Excel.application")>> xlObj.Workbooks.Open "C:\somefile.xls">> xlObj.Do things . . .>> xlObj.Quit>>>> (taken from some website). I also heard that Mac apps can>> be controlled form Apple Script or Objective C or something.>> How nice.>>>> Regards,>> Ryo>>>> The best two solutions that I have found are gnome-web-print and this> Firefox extension:> http://torisugari.googlepages.com/commandlineprint2>> --> Dotan Cohen>> http://what-is-what.com> http://gibberish.co.il>> א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת> ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه-و-ي> А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р-С-Т-У-Ф-Х-Ц-Ч-Ш-Щ-Ъ-Ы-Ь-Э-Ю-Я> а-б-в-г-д-е-ё-ж-з-и-й-к-л-м-н-о-п-р-с-т-у-ф-х-ц-ч-ш-щ-ъ-ы-ь-э-ю-я> ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü> ___________________________________________________> This message is from the kde mailing list.> Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.> Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.> More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.___________________________________________________This message is from the kde mailing list.Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde.Archives: http://lists.kde.org/.More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
